Prices--when To Sell

At the present time the course of the markets is closely studied. Wheu to sell, is a curiou8 question with farmers. Hitherto they have frequently had the mortification to see their grain pass from their hands at low price, which have been brought about by combinations of speculators and dealers. These persons, as soon as they had secured the grain, have put up prices and cleared millions of dollars, which by right ought to have goue to the farmers' pockets. At the present time the market has been influenced by false reporta of enormous erops in Europe, and grain has been sold for delivery several months ahead, at prices which will not pay the cost of faising it. The London Mark Lane Evpress, speaks of "low stook at present with no room for decline, and that every exporting country eomplains bitterly of English rates." This means higher prices, and if grain is not forced on the markets, we do not see how they can be prevented. Fortunately farmers are becoming better able to act in their own defense, and having learned to combine for this purpose, may set their own price on their products, and demand a fair value for their labor. Some commercial papers pretend that thig is au improper thing to do; that it is next to criminal for farmers to set their own price upon the world's food. That they should sell at the earliest moment their grain is ready for market, and take the current pnce for it. But what other producers do this? None. All other producers fix their prices, and hold their produce for them as long as they are able. And this the farmer has a right to do. No other man may fix the price for the farmer's labor. To do that is his own personal privilege. But to bo able to watch his own interests olosely, and proteot his privileges, the farmnr must keep " posted." He must be a readiug man. It is by reading, more than by practical experience, that men become educated ; and a man's education is not flnished while he lives. One's own experience is narrow. When one reads he gathers the accumulated exporience of hundreds of thousands. The farmer therefore must read papers. His local papers, as a matter of course, should be read, because eyery farmer should interest himBelf in his own local affairs, and mako his weight felt sooially and politically. This is duty to himself and to his neighbors. But in addition, he should read some paper in which he may get a general view of affairs in which he has an interest. It is only as far as farmers read and study the best papers more and more, that they will be enabled to act in cuncert with each other, understandingly and effectively. In unión is strength, but that strength is useful only as it is